HOW LONG WILL THE SANE REMAIN?

It hunts sanity

like a crazed pride of desperately starved lions

on hunt for prey

launching veracious attack

on body, bone, biscuit bone and brain

at one fell swoop,

but this will to live is strong;

iron and stainless

On the lane of the sane

but for how long will the sane remain so and same?

It is as biting as a score of vengeful mosquitoes on an ill mannered host;

situate ever so close to green still water.

It burns, passionately,

like the unwelcome romance of the midday sun in the Sahara

leaving in its wake, desert without green or water

How long will the sane remain so and same?

When change is but old wives tales

by moonlight and we watch,

seemingly helplessly as this fragile fetus is forcefully flushed

away by a repugnant order which will not benefit

swiftly from new birth

The cycle is repeated

again and again -

conception and death

like an ever constant circumference

How long will the sane remain so and same?

when pedal-led propaganda

matter most

even more so, than an actual rebirth of hope

and how long will the sane remain so and same?

when the sacred sea source of all

is defiled for the sake of offspring’s of sect

the forsaken are as countless

as drops in seas

A land of green and a fair flowing river

makes the sane remain so and same

by Yewande Adebowale